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Born January 3, 1954 in Manhattan, New York, USA
Phil Solomon was an internationally recognized filmmaker and educator who taught both film history/aesthetics and film production at University of Colorado Boulder from 1991 until his death in 2019. Solomon’s work has been screened in every major venue for experimental film throughout the U.S. and Europe, including 3 Cineprobes (one-man shows) at the Museum of Modern Art and two Whitney Biennials. His films have won 10 first prize awards at major international film festivals for experimental film (including six Juror’s Awards from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival). His films reside in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Massachusetts College of Art, Binghamton University, Hampshire College, The Chicago Art Institute, San Francisco State University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and the Oberhausen Film Collection. Solomon collaborated on three films with his colleague and friend, Stan Brakhage, who named Solomon’s Remains to be Seen on his Top Ten Films of All Time for Sight and Sound.

The Sea Behind Her Head

Five Films by Phil Solomon

The Summit

By This River

Ida Western Exile

Sleep Has Her House

Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow

The Emblazoned Apparitions

The Eternal Courtship

Turbulent Waters

Night Hunter

American Falls

Sweetgrass

Still Raining, Still Dreaming

Empire

Rehearsals for Retirement

Last Days in a Lonely Place

Crossroad

Life with Stan #4: Stan Painting

Psalm III: Night of the Meek

Seasons...

Stan Brakhage Exits the Cinema and Enters the Light of Day
Himself

Innocence and Despair

Psalm II: Walking Distance

Psalm I: The Lateness of the Hour

Yes I Said Yes I Will Yes

Brakhage
Self

Floating under a Honey Tree

Cannibal! The Musical
Miner (uncredited)

Concrescence

The Snowman

Bitemporal Vision: The Sea

Elementary Phrases

Clepsydra

Remains to Be Seen

The Exquisite Hour

The Secret Garden

What’s Out Tonight Is Lost

The Passage of the Bride

Nocturne